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Editor, Woke up on Groundhog Day 2018 to “Finding Meaning” (Indy, Feb 2). Indy is practicing real pluralism with this new feature column on faith. The first column by Skip Hellewell, making a deft play on Groundhog Day and the movie by that name starring Bill Murray, was pitch...

Editor, In response to your recent article about suspensions at LBHS, I think you missed the point… The issue of concern here is not the number of suspensions reported by LBHS. Instead, several questions of vastly more importance emerge from facts embedded in your article. First,...

Editor, In response to “School Discipline Under Scrutiny Again” article Feb. 2. What is most incomprehensible to me is why there hasn’t been more investigative research, on the Indy’s behalf, to uncover why our school board is spending over $150,000 of our taxpayer dollars on a...

Editor, Having read and heard more about this incident over the past year, I firmly believe had the Laguna Beach Police Department handled the situation internally without involving L.B.H.S., the LBUSD would be $150,000 richer and counting because the board refuses to take...

Editor Re: “School Discipline Under Scrutiny Again,” Feb. 9 edition. The originating event did not happen on campus, did not happen during school hours, did not happen while traveling to or from school. So why would five minors be questioned by the police, more than 10 days after...

Editor, The 1955 movie “To Catch a Thief” was made in Cannes and Nice, France, and its views of the countryside remind me of our Laguna Beach. The climate there is very similar and the flora of the hillsides looks like our hillsides as well. Both French Riviera cities are...

Editor, Just Add Water? I am not a trained firefighter but I am a skilled waterman. Strategically applied, water puts out fire. Sometimes we can combine a few problems and synergistically develop a creative solution. What happens if we take the 1.6 million gallons of secondary...

Editor, It’s a sad day for our free exchange of ideas when the argument is made that there should be a penalty for having an opinion. In a recent letter from G. Brown, the author proposes that those who support defending our majestic eucalyptus trees be included in a...

Editor: I was disenchanted and surprised to read the quotes by Michael McLaughlin, who released statements about the pre-endorsement delegates to the media, in regard to a memo sent by Dr. Hans Keirstead. Yes, there is still a race to determine who will be the Democratic...

Editor: We agree with Ben Earl (“Anti-Trump Diatribe Belongs Elsewhere,” Feb. 2) regarding Billy Fried’s column. Fried’s opinions on national politics and his personal attacks have no place in the Laguna Beach Independent. We get enough of them everyday on the...

Editor, No one believes that it shouldn’t be renovated and restored to its original glory. However, the original structure never had a rooftop addition as proposed by the developer. The building has been designated to be an important historical structure. As such, the developer...

Editor I just had to write and say thank you (to the city’s cultural arts manager Sian Poeschl) for: The heavenly rainbow consolation memorial art installation next to the artistically cut pepper tree remains. The amazing movie last night at Friday Night Flicks at the Forum,...

Editor, I grew up in Corona del Mar, but I began working at age 7 for my Dad who was building single houses in Laguna Beach. Our family loved the artistic community—the old, European-style historic buildings that had been carefully protected over the years. We also loved the...

Editor, Recent fires in Santa Barbara still generate news and bring memories of our ‘93 fire. Given the history of eucalyptus trees (tall, yes; majestic, not sure) and their propensity to explode due to their oil content, the dry brush (kudos to our fire department’s efforts to...

Editor, I almost choked on my coffee while reading Billy Fried’s latest feature, “A Reason For Hope”. As Mr. Fried launched into his strangely over-the-top Obama love fest, I thought at first I was being spoofed. But lo and behold, Mr. Fried’s idolization of the “magnificent”...